Anthony Hopkins's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Posted November 4, 2026 • by movie guru

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

This bottom eight starts at a 9.0, which is the most Anthony Hopkins sentence possible. Ranked by movie.guru score, least low to lowest.

The last one scored lowest, and I'm defending it anyway. Fight me.

8
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)9.0
A 9.0 on a lowest list. That's the flex.
95% on Rotten Tomatoes and $273.1M worldwide on a reported $19M. If this is his floor, the man's floor is a penthouse.
7
One Life (2023)8.6
Still an 8.6 down here. Bring tissues.
Audiences rated it above 93% of movies, but it made only $5.7M domestic against $56.7M worldwide. American theaters skipped a great one.
6
Fracture (2007)6.8
The most rewatchable movie here. Yes, over Lambs.
Hopkins versus a young Ryan Gosling, 7.2 on IMDb from 239,735 voters, A minus CinemaScore. A Sunday afternoon movie and proud of it.
5
Red Dragon (2002)6.5
Best cast on the list, safest possible director.
Norton, Fiennes and Keitel, and Brett Ratner landed a 60 on Metacritic. $209.2M worldwide says nobody minded him playing it safe.
4
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)5.9
Underrated. Gary Oldman carried this one in a cape.
IMDb voters give it 7.4, way above its 5.9 here. Keanu's accent is a choice, but $215.9M worldwide on a reported $40M is not.
3
Meet Joe Black (1998)5.9
Critics hated it. Audiences gave it an A minus. Audiences win.
48% on Rotten Tomatoes, A minus CinemaScore. A reported $90M budget for Brad Pitt staring politely, and people still made it $142.9M worldwide.
2
Hannibal (2001)4.4
The biggest hit of the eight is the weakest Lecter.
$351.7M worldwide, the most money here, and a C+ CinemaScore. Ridley Scott made a sequel audiences paid for and then frowned at.
1
Locked (2025)3.8
Lowest score, but it's better than Hannibal.
A 3.8 here, yet 63% on Rotten Tomatoes and my Guru's Take is 4.9, above Hannibal's 4.8. It grossed $4,647,059 worldwide on a reported $5M. Nobody showed up.

Change my mind. Rank these from the one you'd rewatch first to the one you'd never touch.

$347.26 says the first comment is someone furious that Silence of the Lambs is on a lowest list.

Current mood: ready to fight about it

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